Re: [xenu-usergroup] Puzzling Xenu Behavior

The index file has two mysterious bytes (maybe the utf16 magic sequence) at the beginning, and apparently this confuses a microsoft library that my software is

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, Dec 15, 2012

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The index file has two mysterious bytes (maybe the utf16 magic sequence)
at the beginning, and apparently this confuses a microsoft library that
my software is using. Remove that.

Tilman

Am 14.12.2012 22:59, schrieb Bill:

> I'd used Xenu for many happy years, until the machine it was installed on crapped out.
> I've just downloaded the latest version and run it against my web site, www.greatdecals.com, and it found nothing. No links, no nothing.
> I also ran it against another web site I'm involved with, and that worked fine. Any ideas?
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Mosteller
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Al Guevara

Use a modern editor, not WORD. Use notepad even. much better than Word. ... From: Tilman Hausherr To: xenu-usergroup@yahoogroups.com

Message 2 of 4
, Dec 15, 2012

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Use a modern editor, not WORD. Use notepad even. much better than Word.

>The index file has two mysterious bytes (maybe the utf16 magic sequence)
>at the beginning, and apparently this confuses a microsoft library that
>my software is using. Remove that.

>Tilman

>Am 14.12.2012 22:59, schrieb Bill:
>> I'd used Xenu for many happy years, until the machine it was installed on
>crapped out.
>> I've just downloaded the latest version and run it against my web site,
>www.greatdecals.com, and it found nothing. No links, no nothing.
>> I also ran it against another web site I'm involved with, and that worked
>fine. Any ideas?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill Mosteller
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>

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>Yahoo! Groups Links

Bill

I edited and re-filed a half-dozen or so web site files and corrected the problem. Thanks a million, Tilman! Tilman Hausherr wrote: Sorry, my answer was not

Message 3 of 4
, Dec 16, 2012

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I edited and re-filed a half-dozen or so web site files and corrected the problem. Thanks a million, Tilman!

Tilman Hausherr wrote:

Sorry, my answer was not really correct, as the rest will show.

Use "save as" in notepad, and instead of "unicode", choose ANSI (which is the iso-8859-1 mentioned in your HTML, or almost)

I tried this, and the resulting TXT file was only half the size. So what you had was unicode text, i.e. two bytes per character. Its probably not illegal, but highly unusual.

Tilman

Am 15.12.2012 13:45, schrieb William Mosteller:

> Thanks, but I think I need a tool I'm not aware of to do so.
> Neither Notepad nor Wordpad on my machine shows the two bytes, any suggestions? Thanks again.
>
> On 12/15/2012 7:33 AM, Tilman Hausherr wrote:
>> The index file has two mysterious bytes (maybe the utf16 magic sequence) at the beginning, and apparently this confuses a microsoft library that my software is using. Remove that.
>>
>> Tilman

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